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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but this is the University of Waterloo we're talking about here. This hit Canadian mainstream media CTV News so I know that. Also for an university specializing in Engineering and Mathematics there's a shit ton of cameras around

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also, I'm not sure if this is the same in Canada as the US, but I'm pretty sure that in many cases, vandalism is considered a much lesser crime than unauthorized computer tampering/hacking